Introduction

Welcome to my Portfolio! This is where I will display my findings during the course ‘Computational Musicology’ at the UvA.Feel free to look around and ask me any questions :)

In this Corpus I am comparing FIlm Music and Classical Music, and seeing how they interact and how they differ.

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Visuals

Similar Energy Levels Between Classical & Film Music

In the graph below you can see an analysis of the energy levels when comparing two playlists of classical music and of film music. You can see that there indeed appears to be a very similar distribution of energy levels across both genres, you may also be able to see that they similarly have a lot of tracks considered “low” in energy and relatively little considered “high” in energy.

Comparing Hans Zimmer - Time & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik K.525

In the following two graphs I compare the very famous movie theme ‘Time’ by Hans Zimmer from the movie Inception, against the classical music piece Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (K.525) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Both of these pieces are in the key of G-major, but you can clearly see a difference in their song structure. Both pieces are around ~5 minutes in length, but whereas Zimmer tends to hold the listener in a state of harmonic suspense (Many of the notes are repeated over and over), Mozart displays are more classical from of song structure by clearly switching between chords (note the clear distinction of notes in the graph)

Comparing Song Sections

Here we can see again how Hans Zimmer doesn’t really have a clearly defined song structure, whereas Mozart does seem to do this. Eventhough they use the same musical key.

Hans Zimmer

Mozart

Chords analysis

Now we will compare the chords used in these two songs.By doing this we can again correlate our findings from the previous two graphs. It appears that while Hans Zimmer’s Time and Mozart’s Nachtmusik share the same tonic chord (G-Major), and they both certainly make extensive use of thi chord, Zimmer doesn’t follow common song structure nearly as much as Mozart does. This could be explained by the strong sense of “norm” back in Mozart’s time, but it could also be an effect of more Chordal Thinking in Mozart’s time.

Hans Zimmer - Time

Mozart - Nachtmusik

Data sourced from SPOTIFY URI.

Conclusion

This page will list my conclusions. As I am currently still in the exploratory stage of this program, I do not have any definite conclusions yet.